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French Tech startup D-Vine dispenses wine at the ideal temperature and aeration for the media at CES Unveiled (Source: Eddie Leblanc/Oxygen PR).

Though the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) doesn’t officially start until Wednesday, we had an early glimpse Monday of what could be the major trends at the technology’s biggest tradeshow during “CES Unveiled”.

And one of them, to the surprise of the thousands of international press and analysts rushing through the huge wooden doors of the big Mandalay Bay hotel ballroom, is the large number of IoT devices i.e. connected gadgets (drones, fork, toothbrush, cameras, showerhead, lights, automatic watering systems…) that were also speaking French!

Lima connects any hard drive to the cloud for remote sharing and syncing (Source: Penelope Liot/Lima).

“Sacré bleu! It feels like every other booth is a French startup,” says Jochen Siegle, a reporter for Germany’s leading technology blog TechFieber.de, intrigued by the omnipresence of technology companies that made the trip from France to attend Unveiled.

Mapwize allows users to instantly visualize the interior of any building (Source: Mederic Morel/Mapwize)

Indeed, off the 165 companies showcasing at the official media preview event, about 30% (45 to be exact) were part of the La French Tech, the rallying brand for all those working in the French startup ecosystem, like Arkamys, Beewi, Belty, D-Vine, Kolibree, Lima, Netatmo, Oliba, Parrot, Sevenhugs, Sensorwake, Slow Control, Videostitch or Withings, to name just a few.